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Top Justice Department officials traveled to the White House on Monday in a last-ditch effort to warn Chief of Staff John Kelly about the dangers of releasing a Republican-written classified memo alleging surveillance abuses by the FBI, according to a report.

Wray and Rosenstein appealed to Kelly to relate to the president that the four-page memo could damage national security and set a dangerous precedent for the handling of classified materials, the newspaper reported.

Kelly told them that Trump was still inclined to publicly release the document, but would first have the National Security Council and the White House counsel review it.

That examination could take several days.

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Wray and Rosenstein’s appeal Monday came just before members of the GOP-controlled House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines to release it, giving Trump a five-day window to make a decision.

Rep. Devin Nunes, the panel’s chairman, and other Republicans wrote the memo that reportedly includes allegations that the DOJ and FBI used some of the information in a controversial dossier to seek a warrant to spy on former Trump campaign staffer Carter Page.